Quotes About Misconception

The common belief that to follow the Buddha's teaching one has to retire from life is a misconception. It is really an unconscious defence against practising it.

Whenever you conclude that God is unjust, you can know that you err biblically. Behind your misconception you will find the beautiful, gracious work of God.

we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture of the opposition, that it takes as fact, not what is, but what it supposes to be the fact.

The deepest of all the stereotypes is the human stereotype which imputes human nature to inanimate or collective things.

El estereotipo social que muestra a la persona ética como un ser aburrido, aguafiestas o mojigato es absurdo y carece de todo fundamento.

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.

We take a snapshot of our teens in their current phase and mistake it for the epic movie of their entire life.

There'd been so many things she'd thought she'd known when in fact she'd barely understood the smallest thing.

The word fallacy is used, in general, when people fail to apply a logical rule that is obviously relevant.

La lettura, atto di comunicazione? Ecco un'altra simpatica frottola da commentatori! Quel che noi leggiamo, lo taciamo.

It's interesting because people assume that because I'm famous I know all famous people.

The Germans are fond of saying that only Austria could convince the world that Beethoven was an Austrian and Hitler was a German.

Old wives' tales have hurt cats. They're not true! Who are those Old Wives?

You start the day you think it will play out the way you saw in your head but then you discover the day is mostly just dread It's not like what I read

There is a popular misconception that native flowers are 'weeds', but of course a weed is just a plant growing where the gardener doesn't want it to be.

I thought how you can never tell just by looking at them what they were thinking or what was happening In their lives. Even when you got daft people or drunk people on buses, people that went on stupid and shouted rubbish or tried to tell you all about themselves, you could never really tell about them either... I knew if somebody looked at me, they'd know nothing about me, either.

Among them we cannot possibly include the unfortunate but widespread idea that English is simpler than other languages.

The Spanish, contrary to a widespread misconception, do not eat hot, heavily seasoned food. They use very little pepper and very few herbs. I believe this conception of the Spanish diet must have originated in Texas, where they do Mexican and Spanish dishes in the hottest manner I know.

Not everything appears as it seems and vice versa in life like I have no teeth but is not because I'm a country bumpkin I actually lost them in Iraq but I chew steaks better without them how you like them apples

idealism mistakenly imputes a logic and rationality to culture

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

Once, to my delight, I even saw him wearing pince-nez. (Later, I discovered that they weren't real prince-nez, but only had glass in them, and that his eyes were a good deal sharper than my own.)

I tend to equate physical beauty with qualities with which it has absolutely nothing to do. I see a pretty mouth or a moody pair of eyes and imagine all sorts of deep affinities, private kinships.

I don't bed with children.' 'Rumour says,' said Catherine d'Albon, 'that you did. Or are the Knights of St John all mistaken?' 'You know too much,' said Francis Crawford slowly. 'Shall I amend it? I don't bed with young girls who are virgins, unless they ask me, and unless I am married to them.